In a 3-2 decision, the Supreme Court of South Carolina Wednesday denied multiple petitions for rehearing on their decision that South Carolina’s Fetal Heartbeat Protection From Abortion Act (Fetal Heartbeat Act) violated South Carolina constitutional privacy, due process and equal protection guarantees. The Fetal Heartbeat Act attempted to prohibit abortions after a fetal cardiac activity is [...]
In official decertification documents released by the state of Tennessee Tuesday, an administrative hearing summary stated that Demetrius Haley, one of the officers involved in Tyre Nichols’ death, took two photographs on his personal cell phone “while standing in front of after he was handcuffed.” Haley is one of the five Memphis police officers indicted [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Tuesday affirmed a ruling holding that the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) does not allow an employee to maintain an action against the Secretary of Labor seeking relief for dangerous working conditions after the Department of Labor (DOL) has completed enforcement proceedings. [...]
A Tennessee grand jury Thursday indicted five former Memphis Police Officers for their involvement in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith stopped Nichols on January 7 in a traffic stop. Nichols died in the hospital three days after the interaction. The officers [...]
Mifepristone manufacturer GenBioPro Inc. Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of West Virginia, challenging the state’s restrictions on medication abortions. Mifepristone is a generic medication abortion pill approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used up to ten weeks of pregnancy. GenBioPro alleges that West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection Act [...]
Southwest Airlines Pilot Association (SWAPA) President Captain Casey Murray announced Wednesday that the union is calling for a strike authorization vote on May 1, with votes to be counted at the end of May. If the majority of SWAPA votes to authorize a strike, Southwest pilots represented by SWAPA will be released to “self-help” and [...]
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday that pharmacy retailer Walgreens has agreed to pay an $83 million settlement over its opioid distribution practices within an 8-year period. The state of West Virginia sued the pharmacy chain, along with others, for failure to maintain “effective controls against diversion as a distributor and dispenser,” which [...]
US Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday announced the appointment of special counsel in the investigation of classified documents from the Obama-Biden Administration discovered in an office formerly used by President Joe Biden. Special counselor Robert Hur is a former career Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor and former US Attorney for the District of Maryland. In [...]
President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday signed the Health Services Amendment Act into law, preventing health workers from striking for longer than 72 continuous hours or over 72 hours in 14 days. The act also states that striking health workers must provide written notice 48 hours before a collection action begins and must provide emergency services [...]
California Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis Friday entered a verdict to enjoin California’s Senate Bill 826 (SB 826) after finding that the law violated Article I, Section 7 of the California Constitution. The law, enacted in October, 2018, requires publicly held corporations in California to have one or more female directors for boards with four or [...]
